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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-09-15T14:19:21.850Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-09-15T14:46:33.065Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:41:22.251Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncoresight: Fix memory leak in acpi_buffer->pointer\n\nThere are memory leaks reported by kmemleak:\n...\nunreferenced object 0xffff00213c141000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 2123, jiffies 4294909467 (age 6062.160s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 18 10 14 3c 21 00 ff ff  ...........<!...\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<000000004b7c9001>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2f8/0x348\n    [<00000000b0fc7ceb>] __kmalloc+0x58/0x108\n    [<0000000064ff4695>] acpi_os_allocate+0x2c/0x68\n    [<000000007d57d116>] acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x54/0xe0\n    [<0000000024583908>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x388/0x438\n    [<0000000017b2e72b>] acpi_evaluate_object_typed+0xe8/0x240\n    [<000000005df0eac2>] coresight_get_platform_data+0x1b4/0x988 [coresight]\n...\n\nThe ACPI buffer memory (buf.pointer) should be freed. But the buffer\nis also used after returning from acpi_get_dsd_graph().\nMove the temporary variables buf to acpi_coresight_parse_graph(),\nand free it before the function return to prevent memory leak."
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